From Magrath to Leslie

From Magrath to Leslie

Lough Derg--Description--1940s--Margaret Gibbons

"The Monastery of Lough Derg, like most other Irish monasteries, was endowed with extensive lands at an early date by neighbouring chieftains..."

Margaret Gibbons, 1884-1969

Gibbons, Margaret, Guide to St. Patrick’s Purgatory, Lough Derg, pp. 13-14

Talbot Press, Dublin and Cork

1933

Citation for the purposes of criticism

Monograph

English

Pilgrim guide

DD_0107

54.6153, -7.8864

"The Monastery of Lough Derg, like most other Irish monasteries, was endowed with extensive lands at an early date by neighbouring chieftains. In the 15th century these lands were vested in the Magrath family, who held them as guardians of the Sanctuary and its property till 1644, when they were confiscated by the Crown and confered on Dr. John Leslie, Protestant Bishop of Clogher, and he succeeded somehow in bequeathing these see-lands and private property to his sons and heirs in perpetuity."

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